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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815480903321

Autore

Birner Jack <1951->

Titolo

The Cambridge controversies in capital theory : a study in the logic of theory development / / Jack Birner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Routledge, 2002

ISBN

0-429-23126-1

1-134-90654-4

1-280-32110-5

0-203-41668-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in the history of economics ; ; 47

Disciplina

332.041

Soggetti

Capital

Neoclassical school of economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; A brief exposition of reswitching and capital reversing; The background of the debate: some history; Clouds in the neoclassical sky; Taking methodological stock (I); Triumph and crisis of the neoclassical production model; Taking methodological stock (II); From curiosum to issue; Neoclassical reactions; Taking methodological stock (III); The role of mathematics; Taking methodological stock (IV); A final stock-taking; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explains the debate over the Cambridge controversies of the 1960's and 1970's. In a compelling and comprehensive argument Birner discusses the main contributions to the controversy in a series of case studies.